Tradition 10 of 33
Initiatory orders and secret societies
Rosicrucian, Masonic, Golden Dawn, and other initiatory, fraternal, or secret organizations.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 3,102
- Earliest
- 1396
- to 2026
- Read free
- 48%
- 1,481 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,985
- Metadata match59
- Query match58
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Key subjects
- Freemasonry1.2K
- Secret societies583
- Freemasons436
- History332
- Rosicrucians250
- Sociétés secrètes186
- Rituals166
- Religious aspects110
- Early works to 180099
- Catholic Church94
- Geheimbund94
- Fiction86
- occultism84
- Franc-maçonnerie78
- Freimaurerei78
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn70
- Lodges67
- Symbolism59
- Histoire58
- Controversial literature55
- Social Sciences48
- christianity48
- Magic44
- John the Baptist's Day43
Top languages
- English1,613 · 52%
- German611 · 20%
- French322 · 10%
- NOT89 · 3%
- Spanish88 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Supreme Council of Canada26 books
- Johann Valentin Andreä18 books
- Joséphin Péladan16 in this tradition17 books
- George Oliver16 books
- Moritz Amster15 books
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Massachusetts13 books
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania13 books
- Joseph Gabriel Findel13 books
- Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter13 books
- Max Heindel12 in this tradition14 books
- Friedrich Grick12 in this tradition13 books
- Michael Maier11 in this tradition53 books
3,102 books
- Read free
Proceedings of a masonic festival in commemoration of the birth-day of Washington
Freemasons. New York
1855
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Rosicrucian fundamentals
George Winslow Plummer
1920
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Rosicrucian manual for the instruction of postulants in the congregation of the outer, neophytes, and fraters of duly istituted colleges of the Societas rosicruciana in America
George Winslow Plummer
1923
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Rosicrvcian symbology
George Winslow Plummer
1916
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Secrecy: a poem
Thomas Power
1832
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Secret symbols of the Rosicrucians
Adrian von Mynsicht
1935
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Speeches delivered by Hon. Edward Blake, the leader of the Liberal Party
Edward Blake
1886
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Sunrise; a story of these times
William Black
1881
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The Freemason's monitor, or, Illustrations of masonry, in two parts
Thomas Smith Webb
1805
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The Freemasons: What They Are, what They Do, what They are Aiming at
Louis Gaston de Ségur
1869
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The Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania, or, Ireland in America
Ernest W. Lucy
1882
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The Rose Cross order
R. Swinburne Clymer
1916
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The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception, or, Mystic Christianity
Max Heindel
1911
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The Rosicrucian fraternity in America
R. Swinburne Clymer
1935
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The Rosicrucian philosophy in questions and answers
Max Heindel
1910
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The Son of God
R. Swinburne Clymer
1916
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The True Ahiman Rezon, Or, A Help to All that are Or Would be Free and Accepted Masons: With ...
Laurence Dermott, Alexander Anderson
1805
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The Universal American almanack, or yearly magazine
1763
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The beginnings of freemasonry in America
Melvin Maynard Johnson
1924
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The mysteries of Popery unveiled, in the unparalleled sufferings of John Coustos, at the Inquisition of Lisbon
John Coustos
1820
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Three sevens
W. P. Phelon
1889
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Washington a free mason
Thomas Douglas
1853
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Washington, an exemplification of the principles of free masonry
Stephen Higginson Tyng
1852
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West African secret societies
Frederick William Butt-Thompson
1929